3 hours of ironing? are you in prison?

Used to be a full on Star Wars nerd with Empire as my favourite movie of all. However I got addicted to the short lived TV series Firefly when it did the rounds on UK Sci-Fi channel. Its offshoot feature film Serenity (released 2005) is now my favourite movie of all time. Great script, perfect casting and three dimensional characters (something that sadly could not be said of the Star Wars prequels).

As a side note the main star of Firefly/Serenity - Nathan Fillion, whilst having been around a while with bit parts such as Caleb the priest in Buffy and 'the other' Private Ryan in SPR is slowly getting into leading roles in feature films. Flicks such as Waitress, White Noise 2 and another one of my favourites the comedy horror Slither show him to be a very likeable and accomplished actor. Many are hailing him as the new 'Han Solo' and I can see him being a big star in a few years.

The rest of my favourite movies are too many to mention (love Kevin Smith and Coen brothers movies), but an unexpeted highlight for me in recent years was Batman Begins - The welshman Christian Bale fek'n nailed it with his portrayal of Bats/Wayne. I'm greatly looking foward to its sequel The Dark Knight to see how the current Batman interacts on the screen with the now sadley late Heath Ledger's Joker.

Batman Begins
Aliens
Kingpin
Dumb and Dumber
Pulp Fiction
Black Hawk Down
The People Under The Stairs
Star Wars 1-6
Star Trek: First Contact
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Rambo: First Blood
Rambo II
Predator
Aliens V Predator
Running Man
Commando
The Rutles
Blazing Saddles
The Hill
Shawshank Redemption
Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave
Mike Bassett: England Manager

Just watching V for Vendetta

Quality movie. But everytime it gets me thinking? How close we are to the plot line ? In opinion (it just takes a push for us to fall from the light!!)
Fantastic Idea to use John Hurt as the head Guy. From victim to Big Brother pure genius
PS I stole the quote in brackets from Raiders of the Lost Ark

In (roughly) chronological order:

The General

Most Laurel and Hardy

Duck Soup

The Malteses Falcon

Casablanca

In Which We Serve

Canterbury Tales

The Ladykillers

To Kill a Mockingbird

Psycho

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (It still makes me cry - OK)

For a Few Dollars More

Zulu

Get Carter

Bullitt

Tom Horn

The Italian Job

Animal House

The Blues Brothers

The Sure Thing

Ferris Beuller's Day Off

Indiana Jones (all of them!)

Alien

Millers Crossing

Unforgiven

The Big Lebowski

Three Burials

And these are just the REALLY good ones!

Just seen In Bruges, bloody amazing.
Reservoir dogs, godfather trilogy, indiana jones trilogy, snatch, platoon, battle of britain, gladiator, the list is endless.

1. Blazing Saddles

2. Independence Day, love that American shite!

3. Black Hawk Down

4. V (Not technically a film but everyone should see the series once!)

5. The Green Mile

ok heres the list in particluar order

godfather (I II III)
goodfellas
casino
once upon a time in america
snatch
lockstock and two smoking barrels
pulp fiction
reservoir dogs
rise of the footsoldier
aliens (all but first one, not enough shooting)
payback
saving private ryan (even though matt damon needed smacking)
forest gump
zulu
the eagle has landed
dirty dozen
band of brothers (not technically a film but amazing)
casino royal, goldeneye and connery bonds
hannibal

and many more but thats the top bunch(although i'll remember more)

For sheer melodramatic cheese, The Happening cannot be beaten. One of those films that's meant to be terribly subtely creepy and disturbing but which is actually laugh-out-loud funny due to the over-acting, hamminess and preposterous situtions the characters find themselves in (trying to outrun the wind - where the wind is at the other end of the field etc). Joyous in the way it takes itself so achingly serious.

Colonel Redl

A Matter of Life & Death

La Grande Illusion

Le Souffle au Coeur

Zulu

Z

The Battle of Algiers

If...

The Leopard

Bladerunner

Burnt By The Sun

Dersu Uzala

Aguirre, Wrath of God

Solaris

Uzak